A Cruel Case


POPE the actor, well known for his devotion to the culinary art,

received an invitation to dinner, accompanied by an apology for the

simplicity of the intended fare--a small turbot and a boiled edgebone of

beef. The very thing of all others that I like, exclaimed Pope; I

will come with the greatest pleasure: and come he did, and eat he did,

till he could literally eat no longer; when the word was given, and a

haunch of venison was brought in. Poor Pope, after a puny effort at

trifling with a slice of fat, laid down his knife and fork, and gave way

to a hysterical burst of tears, exclaiming, A friend of twenty years'

standing, and to be served in this manner!



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